Effect of Mechanical Environment on the Differentiation of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells for Functional Bone Tissue Engineering
Bone is the second most transplanted tissue after blood and the need for bone graft materials continues to rise at an average annual growth rate of over 18%. An engineered bone substitute consisting of a bone-like extracellular matrix deposited on the internal pores of a resorbable biomaterial scaf...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26660 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04062009-125328/ |